By Spinning #Toboso19 Killings Before Credible Probe, Marcos Govt Violates International Law The Marcos govt has framed its response to Toboso as though the military’s declaration of “success” is the default conclusion. International law says the opposite. rightsreport.org/2026/04/30/t...

Sued for Doing Her Job, Cagayan de Oro Journalist Fights Back, Questions Misuse of CyberCrime Law A radio news director in Cagayan de Oro published chat screenshots to document why an official canceled a promised interview. Now she faces up to six years in prison. rightsreport.org/2026/04/29/m...

WATCH: THE AGONY OF NEGROS: Unanswered Questions and the Dehumanization of Rebels and Dissenters, with @indayevarona @carloshconde @danabatnag rightsreport.org/2026/04/28/n...

Toboso 19: The Communist Party's admission that nine of the 19 killed were not its combatants shifts the burden squarely onto the Armed Forces — and onto whatever investigation is still credible enough to find the truth. rightsreport.org/2026/04/28/t...

FOG OF WAR OR COVER-UP? #Negros19

Another ‘Nanlaban’ Claim: Boy, Dad, Cousin Killed in Police Raid for Militant A joint military-police operation targeting a suspected militant left three members of a Zamboanga City family dead. The man they were looking for was not among them. rightsreport.org/2026/04/27/z...

19 Dead Bodies and the Army’s Claims That Don’t Add Up A 12-hour running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings,trampled paths,bloodstains,bullet holes in trees or structures. These should have been documented by now. What are they hiding in Toboso? rightsreport.org/2026/04/26/t...

‘Negros 19’ Deaths Need to Be Investigated. But Who Is Credible Enough to Do it? After 19 were killed in Negros Occidental, everyone calls for an investigation. History shows why that may not be enough. rightsreport.org/2026/04/25/n...

Why the Laws of War Matter in Places Like Negros — and Why They Are Routinely Ignored Both sides in the Philippines’ communist insurgency have formally committed to follow the rules of war. In Negros Occidental and elsewhere, they have repeatedly broken them. rightsreport.org/2026/04/24/i...

Death of 19 in Army Raid Raises Hard, Familiar Questions Nineteen people are dead and hundreds displaced after a military operation in Negros Occidental. The military called it a decisive victory against the communists. Human rights groups are demanding answers. rightsreport.org/2026/04/23/n...

Duterte’s Lawyer Is Right About the ICC Seeking Relevance. He’s Just Wrong About Why. NEWS ANALYSIS by Carlos Conde: The ICC handed drug war families something no Philippine court ever did: a real shot at accountability. Pres. Marcos has no excuse not to meet it. rightsreport.org/2026/04/23/i...

This Group Helped Put Duterte’s Words on Trial at the ICC Most Filipinos have never heard of No Peace Without Justice. But for nearly a decade, this Rome-based advocacy group quietly helped build one of the most consequential human rights cases in Asian history. rightsreport.org/2026/04/22/d...

If The Hague Can’t Help, Can Manila? A ruling against the ICC’s jurisdiction on the Duterte case would leave thousands of Filipino families with few good options — and a government that has shown little appetite to be the answer. rightsreport.org/2026/04/21/i...

What RFK Award to Filipino Lawyers Group Means for Human Rights in the Philippines and Beyond NUPL, like other legal aid groups before it, was born out of the Philippines’ long struggle for justice and accountability. rightsreport.org/2026/04/18/n...

From Online Abuse to Real-World Harm: The War on Women Journalists in the Philippines Women journalists in PH are among the most targeted in the world, and the attacks online are increasingly designed to follow them into real life. But they are fighting back. rightsreport.org/2026/04/16/w...

CONTEXT CHECK: Layers of markups and taxes that push prices as high as 355%, a gutted generics law, kickbacks to doctors, and decades of regulatory failure have made the Philippines one of the most expensive pharmaceutical markets in Asia. rightsreport.org/2026/04/14/h...

How Ayala Took Land Away from Poor Iloilo Fisherfolk to Build a High-End Resort New documentary shows how Ayala Land grabbed 335 hectares of agrarian reform land in Sicogon, Iloilo, displacing hundreds of small fisherfolk. #ayalaland #agrarianreform #landgrabbing rightsreport.org/2026/04/13/s...

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The drug war that killed 1000s under Duterte remains a policy under Marcos. A fundamental shift in policy is clearly warranted. The question is no longer whether harm reduction works. The question is whether the govt is willing to do what it already said it would. rightsreport.org/2026/04/10/d...

Hundreds Are Still Being Killed in Drug War. What’s Stopping Marcos Govt from Doing the Right Thing? A summit in 2024 asked the govt to treat illegal drugs not as a crime problem but as a public health problem. The body count since then suggests it isn’t listening. rightsreport.org/2026/04/10/d...

A CHR report accuses the Philippine govt of violating laws meant to protect children. It documents a pattern of abuse that begins at arrest, continues inside government-run facilities, and is sustained by a justice system too broken and too slow to protect them. rightsreport.org/2026/04/09/c...

Nearly 25,000 people were apprehended in two days. The police say it’s about discipline. Critics say the numbers reveal exactly what’s wrong with the operation. Police Nab Thousands in Urban Poor Sweep; Lawyers, Child Rights Groups Call Arrests Illegal, Anti-Poor rightsreport.org/2026/04/09/u...

Building on previous documentation by human rights groups, the CHR issues a report this week that says the facilities waiting for these children are still squalid and abusive. Remulla’s Crackdown: Arrested Children Could End Up in Hell-Holes Like Bahay Pagasa rightsreport.org/2026/04/08/d...

From ‘Warfare’ to Welfare: Project Aims to Change the Way Filipinos View and Talk About Drug Use In a first, the Philippines launches community-led harm reduction modules that recognize the human rights of drug users and impart empathy rather than fear. rightsreport.org/2026/04/07/h...

Rights Report Philippines founder and editor Carlos Conde will be speaking at this event tomorrow organized by the Ateneo Human Rights Center. www.facebook.com/AteneoHRC/po...

The government says young people loitering after 10 p.m. will be arrested. Well-meaning, perhaps, but legally infirm. A child caught out past curfew is supposed to be taken home, not taken into custody. The law treats it as a welfare issue, not a criminal one. rightsreport.org/2026/04/07/r...

What prompted this schoolgirl from the Philippines to walk out of her graduation ceremony, marched through the streets of her town in Bicol carrying this sign, and pleaded with President @bongbongmarcos for help? #ChildSexualAbuse #Education #Rape ➡️ rightsreport.org/2026/04/01/c...

How Will We Read If We Are Being Raped?’ An 11-year-old girl’s letter to President Marcos jr. went viral. Behind it is a small shelter in Camarines Sur — and a fight against an official the children say has made their lives impossible. rightsreport.org/2026/04/01/c...

A new report by UN expert Mary Lawlor finds that Meta/Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube and other platforms activists rely on to expose abuse are increasingly being used to silence them — and the tech companies responsible appear to be paying less and less attention. rightsreport.org/2026/03/31/s...

A report by Workers’ Rights Watch paints a grim picture of the state of labor rights in the Philippines. Accountability is practically zero while much-vaunted mechanisms to stop or mitigate the violations, like the European Union’s GSP+, have proven ineffective. rightsreport.org/2026/03/31/l...

Filipinos are struggling with housing, yes. But what the data actually shows is that the Philippines has an inequality problem — deep, structural, and decades in the making. Housing is simply where people feel it most acutely. Affordable housing is a human right. rightsreport.org/2026/03/30/h...

Philippines Is Ground Zero for Disinformation. Facebook’s Fix Will Make it Worse. Meta its own watchdog says Community Notes could backfire in places like the Philippines where disinformation is rampant. That’s because the company is “cosplaying accountability.” rightsreport.org/2026/03/28/f...

Facebook Scrapped Its Fact-Checkers. Now Its Own Watchdog Says the Replacement -- Community Notes -- Could Make Disinformation Worse, Especially in the Philippines, the "Patient Zero" of Disinfo rightsreport.org/2026/03/28/f...

A major ADB study exposes the depths of poverty among older Filipinos. For one, they rely mostly for income from fragile remittances and unpredictable family support. For another, the country’s pension system is broken; it is ranked nearly last in the world. rightsreport.org/2026/03/28/o...

Court Upholds Cumpio, Domequil Terror-Financing Conviction rightsreport.org/2026/03/27/c...

Appeals Court Overturns Rebellion Conviction of Child Rights Advocate Ma. Salome Ujano’s acquittal is the latest blow to a security framework critics say is built on thin evidence rightsreport.org/2026/03/27/s...

#CONTEXTCHECK: The Commission on Human Rights endorsed and celebrated the Philippines’ removal from the UN list of countries with grave violations against children in armed conflict. Here are reasons why that’s problematic. rightsreport.org/2026/03/27/c...

HOOKED: What the US Verdict vs Meta, YouTube Means for PH A US verdict says Meta and YouTube knew their platforms posed addiction risks to children. The Philippines — the world's most Facebook-saturated and top YouTube-using country — has no equivalent protection. rightsreport.org/2026/03/26/m...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Decades of policy failure — from the OPSF to oil deregulation — have left ordinary Filipinos with no real shelter from the worst fuel shock in the country’s history. The Philippines Failed Filipinos Long Before This Energy Crisis Did rightsreport.org/2026/03/26/o...

Drug War: How the World Failed the Philippines OPINION BY CARLOS CONDE: Aside from the belated case at the ICC, institutions of international accountability have been missing in action. The UN came up short. The EU faltered. The ASEAN didn’t even bother. rightsreport.org/2026/03/25/d...

Marcos Taps Coal to Deal with Energy Crisis. Sound Move? Or Just a Habit That’s Hard to Break? But by 2030, coal demand is estimated to rise by at least 15%. That's not moving away -- that is walking deeper into the coal trap the Philippines created for itself. rightsreport.org/2026/03/25/m...

Alvin Aragon is clearly violating the Safe Spaces Act. The government, which also has the responsibility to enforce the anti-discrimination treaties it signed under international law, should throw the book at him and stop his vile attacks against LGBT people. rightsreport.org/2026/03/24/n...

Not Just Showbiz: Alvin Aragon’s Anti-LGBT Campaign Echoes a Script to Block LGBTQ Rights in the Philippines The actor’s statements against LGBTQ people and parents are being dismissed as celebrity drama. They shouldn’t be. rightsreport.org/2026/03/24/n...

Crackdown in Lucio Tan’s Factory Highlights Abuse of Workers in ‘Special Economic Zones’ Water cannon incident is the latest in a string of abuses in ecozones. Advocates urge the EU to enforce GSP+, saying this and previous violations fall within its purview. rightsreport.org/2026/03/24/w...

Islamic Jurists in Muslim Mindanao Push for Rights of Women and Children, One Fatwa at a Time. Congress, Meanwhile, Sits on Its Hands on Rape Law. Can the fatwas accumulate enough religious and social weight to change what no law from Manila has managed to change? rightsreport.org/2026/03/24/f...

A nephew of @rightsreportPH editor Carlos Conde found a dead body thrown into a ditch near a dumpsite in Laguna. In this essay, Conde explores what the gruesome discovery means to him, to his nephew, to their community, and to a country now inured to extrajudicial violence.

Rolan Popatco Jr., the first Aeta to become a medical technologist, deserves every word of praise he gets. The Philippine press deserves a kick in the shin for ignoring the larger significance of his story. rightsreport.org/2026/03/23/p...

The Nameless Corpses of Sirang Lupa Dead bodies, damaged lands, and the cost of getting used to everyday impunity. By @carlosconde.bsky.social LINK IN BIO or rightsreport.org/2026/03/23/t...

A critical ruling due on Monday could test whether Philippine courts will keep sustaining charges that have already been thrown out in case after case — and force a reckoning with a govt apparatus that has treated due process as an obstacle rather than a right. rightsreport.org/2026/03/21/p...